Friday, May 06, 2016

Who knew that SJWs could make it even worse than it was? Milo observes that the feminist Ghostbusters is going to be an SJW-inspired disaster:

At this point, everyone who isn’t a Women’s Studies major realises that Ghostbusters is probably going to be a terrible movie. But who’s responsible? To anyone familiar with incompetence in Hollywood, the answer should be obvious. It’s Amy Pascal, of course.

Pascal is the former chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. She oversaw production of dozens of blockbuster titles over the years, until she was hoist on her own progressivism. A series of embarrassing emails in which she cracked some not-funny racial jokes about President Obama clashed with her public image as a good feminist progressive, and Pascal promptly exited the company.

“Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?” asked Pascal in a leaked email to a colleague on the topic of meeting President Barack Obama at a then-upcoming fundraising event. Her colleague, producer Scott Rudin, replied simply with “12 YEARS”, referencing ’12 Years a Slave’: another slavery film.

The two then proceeded to jokingly list numerous films concerning African-Americans. It wasn’t funny, and, considering Pascal’s public image as a Hollywood feminist, it wasn’t clever either. It was this series of emails among others that resulted in Pascal’s forced resignation from Sony.

But cinema still isn’t safe: Pascal is taking a producer role in a handful of upcoming films, including Ghostbusters. Pascal, SJW-watchers will note, is the producer behind the mooted Zoe Quinn biopic Crash Override: How to Save the Internet from Itself, which I’m sure will be at least as successful as the all-female Ghostbusters. (By which I mean: an utter disaster.)

It’s obvious Pascal is trying to recover her progressive credentials. But her movies are visibly suffering as a result.

Despite her self-proclaimed feminist values, Pascal has proven hilariously bad at pandering to her own tribe. After allegations of a pay gap at Sony, Pascal was quick to offer a tone-deaf rebuttal.

“I run a business. People want to work for less money, I’ll pay them less money. I don’t call them up and go, can I give you some more?” said Pascal in an interview at the Women of the World event in San Francisco. Pascal said actresses should learn to “walk away” if they weren’t satisfied with their jobs. “People shouldn’t be so grateful for jobs,” she said.

In a final, desperate attempt to make herself likeable again, Pascal is now producing rancid films dressed up in social justice-friendly narratives. And it’s working! Progressives are rallying to her defence, crying “MISOGYNY” whenever moviegoers object to the garbage Pascal is trying to feed them....

I suspect the film’s defenders are also aware that the movie is an
impending disaster, which is why they’ve rushed to the web to brand its
critics misogynists. There’s a lot on the line for them. If Ghostbusters
flops, it will be yet further proof that feminism and social justice
don’t sell.

Addendum to Veblen. We're going to need a new theory to account for this new form of virtue-signaling conspicuous consumption.

64 Comments:

There aren't enough blue-haired legbeards, fat girls with septum piercings, or manjawed problem glasses wearers with "MALE TEARS" mugs in the world to make GHOSTBUSTERS 3 : BITCHIN IN THE KITCHEN a success.

And how the fuck do you make a big budget movie with four female leads - and *all* of them are dogs? Was it cast by Stevie Wonder?

The kerfuffle surrounding the Ghostbusters reboot obscures the larger point that Hollywood is out of ideas, reflecting a long spiritual drought not likely to get better anytime soon absent war, bloodshed, or like fertilizer of the creative soul.

I'm amazed people who pride themselves on being intelligent send this kind of career-destroying stuff in emails that can be forwarded at the touch of a button. Forget the actual content - what the hell was she thinking handing a loaded gun to her enemies?

All I need to know about the new Ghostbusters comes straight from YouTube: the official trailer.No need to watch it (or that ad) just look at the upvotes (230,902) vs. the downvotes (732,290).It's been consistently at least 2-1 thumbs down. I doubt even heavy marketing, cross-promotion and nostalgia is going to make this a hit. The original had likeable characters, this one...

New theory? How about the law of imply and demand? The greater the implication that the purchase of a particular good or service indicates SJW status/virtue, the greater the likelihood that SJW's will claim to purchase it for an unrelated virtue?

One cannot admit to anything as gauche as virtue signaling after all, SJW's support Bernie 'cause he's so smart, you see.

The film might turn out to be funny in an ironic, unintentional way. So bad it's good. Who knows? As for the "racist" email exchange, even obnoxious SJW lezzies should be able to make use of their right to free speech and confidentiality of their communications. It was also pretty harmless. Though it feels good to see liberals hoisted on their own petard.

I actually watched the trailer and it looks awful. The one thing that really stands out is they feel they have to tell the viewer how smart and capable the women are. In the originals no one said "Egon is the bestest scientist evah!" The watcher gathered that he was smart from context.

Anyway, the thing about GhostTingles: Sisters are Doing for Themselves, is that when it flops horribly (as it must) the SJWs will take this as proof positive of the endemic misogyny of the West. After all, it will be [current year] and 4 ugly fat talentless females still cannot garner global fame and fortune.

The counter-argument, that people just don't like shit, will not impress them.

Given that SJWs always Double Down, I fully expect us to be drowned in a flood of epically crapulent garbage virtue signalling paeans for years to come, until such time as one of them makes a profit.

The trick, as ever, will be distinguishing this filth from the standard Hollywood fare.

For the first time you see the original Ghostbusters cast standing tall against a background of haze and smoke on a city street. You know the image im talking about.

These guys looked heroic AND they had the right mix of goofy personalities to show they weren't taking themselves too seriously. That was their strength.

Compare the new recreated shots for this upcoming movie. There's the token black and the token fat. They try to strike the same tone as the originals. But they ARE taking themselves too seriously and we know it.

The original Ghostbusters made Three hundred million on a thirty million dollar budget back in 1984. In modern numbers this would be about a billion dollars. The sequal didn't do nearly as well. And as I said Bill Murray wasn't just done with it, he was fucking done with it.

Now a lot this was just lightening in a bottle. They can't recreate the circumstances that made that one great. Certainly no one in the new cast has that kind of talent. But when paired with director Paul Feig, Jenny McCarthy's Unattractive Cousin reliably pulls in 200 million a movie, (fat chicks travel in herds and go to movies).

Brand recognition on top that could in theory add between 50 to 100 million. They don't appear to have broken the bank making it so call the budget 70 million. They won't make blockbuster money but they could easily be in the black.

The first time I saw that awful trailer, I laughed - I was sure it was a joke. Wouldn't it be cool if this was a huge publicity stunt. Suppose Sony made a reboot that was OK, but not as great as the original. Given the harder publicity mountain movies have to climb today, that would create a problem. So they roll out a completely false and completely terrible false trailer to generate buzz. Then encourage people to go crazy. Then, when the craze hits peak, the ol' switcheroo!

Yeah, I don't buy it either. But that trailer is so terrible as to be unbelievable to me - and it makes me wonder.

Curiously, Pascal's wager is the argument that finally converted von Neumann on his deathbed. This is particularly interesting in that von Neumann had the highest IQ and was the greatest genius of anyone in the 20th century (IMHO).

I watched the trailer twice. The second time to assure myself that the first time hadn't been a fevered nightmare inspired by 10 o'clock nachos with too much salsa. I wish it had been.

The first thing that annoyed me in the trailer was how it implied it was a sequel (30 years ago... then a GB logo), but as I watched, I realized it was a reboot. They were trying to hit the same jokes (oh, look, GB had an old ambulance. We'll have an antique hearse! CREATIVE!)

I watched the first two about a month ago (had never seen GB2, wish I had those hours back). Watching GB, I knew this time that the writers must have been yuge HP Lovecraft fans (Egon's library esoterica, a cult trying to bring in an otherworldly horror, I noted several other elements when viewing). I was even thinking how, in the hands of the right Keeper, a Ghostbusters CoC campaign could rock!

I might not be the best judge can someone rate the 4 main protagonists on a 1/10 scale? I mean seriously even some lesbians like pretty girls, they could have had one in the film. Was Serena Williams unavailable for the token black?

The two then proceeded to jokingly list numerous films concerning African-Americans. It wasn’t funny

If only leftist understood that actions speak louder than blacks in a theatre. Also applies to wine trains. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-black-women-kicked-off-napa-wine-train-20150824-htmlstory.html

“I run a business. People want to work for less money, I’ll pay them less money.

Bitches like her will offer more on someone's last shift. One woman manager I worked for offered a staff member(that would have to be replaced with a traveler) more money on his last night when he was already orienting at his next job. It just pissed him off.

touch of a button. Forget the actual content - what the hell was she thinking handing a loaded gun to her enemies?

They say the easiest way to make it in politics is to hand an Epstein island video of you to Darth (((Soros)))

"Who you gonna call? WEIGHT WATCHERS!"

I don't even think Weight Watchers would watch it, the only thing that could save it is if it had a RiffTrax playing for the audio.

I'm more afraid for Star Wars and Marvel for these male dominated shows will get the full gay treatment. Will Milo like it or hate it?

Milo said during his Dangerous Faggot tour that he had 8 concurrent boyfriends, so he could be Doc Octopus.

New theory? How about the law of imply and demand? The greater the implication that the purchase of a particular good or service indicates SJW status/virtue, the greater the likelihood that SJW's will claim to purchase it for an unrelated virtue?

First Cookie Monster cant eat cookies, then moslem muppet, now Bert and Ernie now HIV+ http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nothing-sacred-ad-campaign-shows-bert-ernie-tested-stds"new ad for a home HIV/STD testing kit that features the iconic Bert and Ernie Sesame Street puppets reading the "results" of their screening."

The studio knows its a horrible movie and its all about damage control. The Sony hack by "North Korea" also produced emails of the studio talking about suing or blackmailing cast members to get them to promote the new film or have cameos.

Wikileaks post of the Sony email:

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/104704

Reddit archive from an insider who supposedly worked on the film:

(spoilers) https://archive.is/AWGQQ

The evil bad guy of the movie is already known due to toys being demo'd at a toy convention earlier this year.

Wasn't going to comment. Wasn't going to view the trailer. The imp of the perverse intervened. From the comments, this touching story-

My Grandfather was a chain-smoker from the age of 16. I was only 13 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.' He gave it up immediately when he realized what was at stake. Three years later he died of lung cancer when I was still a junior in high school. He never got to see me graduate. His death absolutely destroyed me. Since then, I made a vow to never touch a cigarette. But none of that matters, because this trailer gave me cancer anyway.﻿

Me thinks the SJW exposed himself a bit with this line about the villain, "get revenge on everyone who slighted him, humiliate and take down Wall Street, make the United States look ridiculous to the rest of the world and eventually destroy NYC, which to him is the brain of the US."

He goes on to talk about this franchise including the billion dollar idea of adding in alien ghosts from other planets.

Utopia is going to have bad books and bad movies. I wouldn't buy real estate there.

The SJW's are busy. Here is the leader of my Church admonishing I guess "Men" on the plights of women using a nice SJW Feminist narrative. The SJW's will be pleased, Muslims aren't even watching, Christian women will I guess wake up and find out once again that they are complete victims once more with no responsibility for their actions...and I guess "Christian Men" need to be slapped for "Rape Culture" or something. Also, Its nice to see the Holy Father give lip service to the economic advances and careerism by women at the expense of the family. Cuckolded Churchianity at its finest....these men live in bubbles and have no idea what is going on at street level and are being advised by serpents. They should be lambasted for this crap

BGKB: They say the easiest way to make it in politics is to hand an Epstein island video of you to Darth (((Soros)))

That's probably true. The powers that be wouldn't mind having some dirt like that on a politician before they build him up, to make sure he stays controlled. It seems a lot of them have this particular skeleton in their closet.

@44 Just remember, if he's not speaking infallibly he's just another guy with an opinion. Through most of Church history few people knew who the pope even was. With an embarrassment like Francis around now is a good time to start re-reading the Church Fathers.

>Well, I gotta say the cast of the original wasn't exactly a bunch of Adonises, either....

The original Ghostbusters wasn't trying to market to mainstream women (as in not a feminist, none of the dysfunction you find in SJWs). It had the demographic you'd expect for a Dan Aykroyd led movie. SJW Ghostbusters is a transparent signalling project that lacks appeal to either the demographic who'd watch the original or mainstream women. And yes, it goes back to how repellent the lead actresses are.

Go look up the bulk of visual works, toys, magazines, and romantic novels directed at girls or women that actually have mainstream appeal (as in not social media feminists and manginas). I'm talking Barbie, Cosmopolitan, Japanese series like Sailor Moon. They have a habit of featuring glamorous, supermodel (or built like a supermodel) leads or poster girls. Women by large don't dig fatties or a Jessica Valenti brand horse-face in their works as leads or poster girls. I'm sure Chris Hemsworth's role as the secretary is really there to draw in mainstream women since the lead actresses are so repellent.

Team: Mike C and Milo. I extend my gratitude for speaking for those of us with a suppressed to no voice or our voice is denied, I thank you for merely stating the lunacy which we statesiders live under.